Usage examples (29)

• Alas, the taverns reputation declined over the years and by 1775 Garrick was referring to the frowsty bowers of the Dog and Duck as peopled with half-drunk fauns and...
• Placed on Diana's left at table, he gave her much voluble information about her neighbors, mostly ill-natured; he spoke familiarly of "that clever chap Marsham," as of a...
• It all looked, like its master, to have been there a long time without getting frowsty.
• She took out the thimble and looked at it again in the dim, swaying interior of the frowsty carriage.